Re: Vampire

From: "Roy 'Plod' Pollard" <plod@NOSPAMproweb.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Bill Heron <bill@novagames.u-net.com> wrote in message
news:IaW34.2435$Sn.186862@newsr2.u-net.net...
> Now, now. Play nice....
>
> Anyway what was this thread about? Oh aye, vampire games. Yeah. They're
yet
> another group of games that you can now lump in with cyberpunk, war-,
> diplomacy, or sci-fi. I think that may have been what Ken meant.
> If folk want to try and exploit that niche good luck to them.
> Personally I think the vampire genre is pretty crap, too much "sad and
> tormented tragic individual".

Think that's because most Vampire-genre games are written by ex-Goths - If
people started to look at the Vampire lifestyle and maybe get their
charactrers enjoying their immortal life (usually other peoples') a little
more things would become a lot more interesting.  Strange how a lot of PBM
players show the same symptoms as Vampires
1.Depressive attitude to life
2.Aversion to sunlight and natural foods (Garlic)
3.Pale skin (you can't get a decent tan from a VDU, no matter how hard you
try)
4.Sociopathic tendencies
5.Cynical attitude towards lesser species (in Vampires case its humans, in
PBMers case its people they don't agree with)

..perhaps that's why Vamps have never taken-off? Too close to real-life.

>OTOH if anyone gets the PBM licence for Brian
> Lumley Necroscope / Wamphyri series - I'd go for that. Now they are baaad!
> None of this mooning about bemoaning their damned existence. They revel in
> being bad - I suspect that an RPG PBM based on that series would
definitely
> cause a hell of a lot of commotion. Adults only I suspect.

Haven't you heard? Most of the Lunley books were snapped up on behalf of
Disney. They'll NEVER let the likes of PBM touch them.

References

Re: Vampire
graham@DELETETHISaffordable-leather.co.uk
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
"Bill Heron" <bill@novagames.u-net.com>
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Vampire
Martin Moen <mmoen@nextel.no>
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
"Plod" <plod@NOSPAMproweb.co.uk>
Tue, 07 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
Ken Mulholland <Ken@timepatternspbm.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
"Plod" <plod@NOSPAMproweb.co.uk>
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Vampire
Ken Mulholland <Ken@timepatternspbm.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000